Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

Every reform was once a private opinion.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.